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    This Rebel Heart (eBook, ePUB)
    The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.
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    This Rebel Heart
    The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.
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    This Rebel Heart
    The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representation, fabulist elements, and a pivotal but little-known historical moment, This Rebel Heart is Katherine Locke's tour de force.
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    The Night Listener , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
    Few storytellers in America write with such unerring insight and honesty as Armistead Maupin. Now he has given us his most ambitious and daringly imaginative work, The Night Listener, a novel as spoken-word serial, including an original music score. Gabriel Noone is a fabulist, a writer whose late-night radio tales have brought him into the homes of millions. In the midst of a painful, unwanted separation from his longtime love, Gabriel reads the extraordinary memoir of Pete Lomax, an ailing 13-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of his parents. Pete is not only a gifted diarist but also a devoted listener of Gabriel's show. And thus begins an extraordinary phone friendship. Then, out of the blue, troubling new questions arise, exploding Gabriel's comfortable assumptions and causing his ordered existence to spin wildly out of control. As he walks a vertiginous line between truth and illusion, he is finally forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic, and erotic. This unprecedented audio project is as thought-provoking as it is mesmeric. The Night Listener is a meditation on the power of voices and the faith we place in them, and an extraordinary audio experience from an American literary icon. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Armistead Maupin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/maup/000001/bk_maup_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Best Fables and Fairytales for Kids, Hörbuch, Digital, 110min
    We have collected for you the best fables and fairy tales ever written. This collection begins with tales from Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Perrault, two absolute masters of the genre, whose stories have been universally read ever since: "The Beauty and the Beast", "Cinderella", T"he Fairies", and "Hansel and Gretel". As for the fables, Jean de la Fontaine is the most famous French fabulist ever; he was recognized as one of the foremost men of letters of France, and his Fables are still learned by every child as an essential part of moral culture. Rendered in elegant translation, enjoy the most famous fables of La Fontaine, along with lesser-known but most interesting ones. Here is a list of our compilation: The City rat and the Country rat; The Frog that wished to be as big as the ox; The Council held by the Rats; The Raven and the Fox; The Dog and the Cat; The Two mules; The Wolf and the Dog; The Swallow and the little birds; The Cat and the Thrush; The Wolf and the Lamb; The Dragon with many heads; The eagle and the beetle; The Lion and the Rat; The Lion grown old; The little Fish and the Fisher; The Lion going to War; The Sick Lion and the Fox. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000619/bk_cids_000619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bingsop's Fables , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 134min
    For more than 20 years, Stanley Bing has peerlessly explained corporate culture and strategy with wit and insight. Now he brings us this engaging and instructive book of white-collar fables that have charmed generations of businesspeople since Greece was glorious and Rome was grand, brilliant gems of wisdom flowing from the pen of the mysterious, legendary author known throughout the ancient corporate world by a single name: Bingsop. Bingsop's Fables is animated by a cast of archetypal characters that are as iconic and representative of human nature as were the jackdaw, the dull, the snake, the hare, the lion, the horse, and all the rest of the birds and beasts that populated the stories of that other fabulist, Aesop. The Stupid Investor, the Miserable Misery Mogul, the Ill-Tempered PR Person, and the Potentially Generous CEO - each struts and frets his hour upon the stage and, in the end, presents us with a moral that rings so true it would hurt if we were not also laughing. Festooned with provocative, witty illustrations by New Yorker artist Steve Brodner, this lean, muscular edition will equally be at home on the shelves of aspiring hedge fund managers hoping to kill their elders as on the credenzas of those beleaguered executives who hear the next generation coming up fast from behind. No business library should be considered complete without it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stanley Bing. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002475/bk_harp_002475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Afterglow: A Dog Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 300min
    Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie. In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their 16 years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. Through this lens, we witness Myles' experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles' childhood puppet to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull, from lyrical transcriptions of their walks to Rosie's enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates all that it can mean when we dedicate our existence to a dog. Elle magazine's pick of best books to read this fall. BuzzFeed's Books Pick of exciting new books you need to read. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eileen Myles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010634/bk_blak_010634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zu einem Igel sprach die Schlange - Fabeln des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    Der größte Teil der Fabeln hat Tiere, und wohl noch geringere Geschöpfe, zu handelnden Personen - Was ist hiervon zu halten? Ist es eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Fabel, daß die Tiere darin zu moralischen Wesen erhoben werden? Ist es ein Handgriff, der dem Dichter die Erreichung seiner Absicht verkürzt und erleichtert? Ist es ein Gebrauch, der eigentlich keinen ernstlichen Nutzen hat, den man aber zu Ehren des ersten Erfinders beibehält, weil er wenigstens belustigend ist? Wieviel Personen sind wohl in der Geschichte so allgemein bekannt, daß man sie nur nennen dürfte, um sogleich bei einem jeden den Begriff von der ihnen zukommenden Denkungsart und andern Eigenschaften zu erwecken? Man setze, in der Fabel von dem Wolfe und dem Lamme, anstatt des Wolfes den Nero, anstatt des Lammes den Britannicus, und die Fabel hat auf einmal alles verloren, was sie zu einer Fabel für das ganze menschliche Geschlecht macht. Aber man setze anstatt des Lammes und des Wolfes den Riesen und den Zwerg, und sie verliert schon weniger, denn auch der Riese und der Zweig sin Individua, Charakter, ohne weitere Hinzutuung, ziemlich aus der Benennung erhellet. Die Fabel hat unsere klare und lebendige Erkenntnis eines moralischen Satzes zur Absicht. Nichts verdunkelt unsere Erkenntnis mehr als die Leidenschaften. Folglich muß der Fabulist die Erregung der Leidenschaften soviel als möglich vermeiden. Wie kann er aber anders z. B. die Eregung des Mitleids vermeiden, als wenn er die Gegenstände desselben unvollkommener macht und anstatt der Menschen Tiere oder noch geringere Geschöpfe annimmt? (G. E. Lessing, "Abhandlungen über die Fabel") deutsch. Hans Eckardt. https://samples.audible.de/bk/lind/002543/bk_lind_002543_sample.mp3.
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    Zu einem Igel sprach die Schlange. Deutsche Fabeln des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    Der größte Teil der Fabeln hat Tiere, und wohl noch geringere Geschöpfe, zu handelnden Personen -- Was ist hiervon zu halten? Ist es eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Fabel, daß die Tiere darin zu moralischen Wesen erhoben werden? Ist es ein Handgriff, der dem Dichter die Erreichung seiner Absicht verkürzt und erleichtert? Ist es ein Gebrauch, der eigentlich keinen ernstlichen Nutzen hat, den man aber zu Ehren des ersten Erfinders beibehält, weil er wenigstens belustigend ist?...wieviel Personen sind wohl in der Geschichte so allgemein bekannt, daß man sie nur nennen dürfte, um sogleich bei einem jeden den Begriff von der ihnen zukommenden Denkungsart und andern Eigenschaften zu erwecken?... Man setze, in der Fabel von dem Wolfe und dem Lamme, anstatt des Wolfes den Nero, anstatt des Lammes den Britannicus, und die Fabel hat auf einmal alles verloren, was sie zu einer Fabel für das ganze menschliche Geschlecht macht. Aber man setze anstatt des Lammes und des Wolfes den Riesen und den Zwerg, und sie verliert schon weniger, denn auch der Riese und der Zwerg sind Individua, Charakter, ohne weitere Hinzutuung, ziemlich aus der Benennung erhellet.... Die Fabel hat unsere klare und lebendige Erkenntnis eines moralischen Satzes zur Absicht. Nichts verdunkelt unsere Erkenntnis mehr als die Leidenschaften. Folglich muß der Fabulist die Erregung der Leidenschaften soviel als möglich vermeiden. Wie kann er aber anders z. B. die Eregung des Mitleids vermeiden, als wenn er die Gegenstände desselben unvollkommener macht und anstatt der Menschen Tiere oder noch geringere Geschöpfe annimmt?" (aus: G. E. Lessing, Abhandlungen über die Fabel) deutsch. Hans Eckardt. https://samples.audible.de/bk/marb/000104/bk_marb_000104_sample.mp3.
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    Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 474min
    A bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature - Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick - from the critically acclaimed Edgar and World Fantasy award-winning author of The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year.At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab returns to the mainland to confront the true author of the novel Moby-Dick, his former shipmate, Ishmael. For Ahab was not pulled into the ocean’s depths by a harpoon line, and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his untimely death have caused him grievous harm - after hearing about Ahab’s demise, his wife and child left Nantucket for New York, and now Ahab is on a desperate quest to find them.Ahab’s pursuit leads him to The Gorgon’s Mirror, the sensationalist tabloid newspaper that employed Ishmael as a copy editor while he wrote the harrowing story of the ill-fated Pequod. In the penny press’s office, Ahab meets George Harrow, who makes a deal with the captain: the newspaperman will help Ahab navigate the city in exchange for the exclusive story of his salvation from the mouth of the great white whale. But their investigation - like Ahab’s own story - will take unexpected, dangerous, and ultimately tragic turns.Told with wisdom, suspense, a modicum of dry humor and horror, and a vigorous stretching of the truth, Ahab’s Return charts an inventive and intriguing voyage involving one of the most memorable characters in classic literature, and pays homage to one of the greatest novels ever written. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Constant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007877/bk_harp_007877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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